A company’s success directly correlates with its people which is why employers and HR/talent acquisition personnel are constantly improving how they find, hire, and retain the best candidates. Data analytics plays a major role in this process.
In this episode of The Analytic Mind Podcast, Sam McKay is joined by Tim Freestone, founder of Alooba, to talk about hiring in analytics and data literacy.
From the big issues with CVs, and interviews, where companies typically go wrong to future trends in hiring and improving data literacy.
Tim Freestone has spent his career in analytics, starting initially as a financial analyst. Throughout his career, Tim has gotten great first-hand experience in being both a candidate and a hiring manager in analytics. It’s this direct exposure to the myriad of issues in analytics hiring that led Tim to found Alooba, a skills assessment platform for data literacy, analytics & data science.
Alooba’s vision is to create a world where everyone can get the job they deserve. This is a world – we can all agree – far from the one we live in right now.
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***** Video Details *****
00:00 Introduction
03:03 Inefficiencies around hiring practices
04:37 Figuring out who’s a good candidate
06:18 Getting alignment between talent acquisition and hiring managers and analytics
09:11 How integrated is Alooba’s testing or assessing for analysts with data-related work in their jobs
12:31 Data literacy and key things that will make a company more data literate
16:16 One of the most tangible benefits of walking individuals through different segments within a business around data literary
18:16 How Tim and the business evolved over the last few years
20:23 Various Alooba products explained
23:28 Learning paths that people can go through to know that they can very competently take assessments that Alooba is creating for businesses
30:34 Alooba’ customer acquisition and lead generation strategies
38:13 The difference in realizing the need for better data literacy on a holistic and individual level
40:13 Alooba customer success stories
44:10 Gender balance in data analytics careers
46:40 The Alooba Team and point of raising venture capital
49:23 Overview of Alooba’s value proposition
***** Related Links *****
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-freestone-alooba/
Alooba: https://www.alooba.com/
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